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Christmas is just around the corner, and you might be having a hard time finding some great gifts. Hopefully this Christmas buyers guide will give you the help you need. The first link will point you to more information about the tool, the second link take you to a store where you can buy the tool. For more gift ideas, look through our tool reviews, and tool blog.

If you didn't know, because of the holiday weekend, just about every store in the US is having a sale. If you are one of the brave, you might be willing to wake up extra early Friday morning to get the best deals before they are sold out. I am not one of those people, and happen to enjoy the extra hours of sleep. That doesn't mean I won't be out on Saturday trying to snag a deal. Here are a few places that are having weekend sales.

Introduction This is one tool that has had a lot of attention ever since it was announced. It seems people have been waiting for an alternative to the Fein MultiMaster for some time. Let me just say that there is a $300 price difference between the Fein MultiMaster and the Dremel Multi-Max, with the Dremel being the cheaper of the two. This is probably the reason people have such a huge interest. Being someone that has never used the MultiMaster, unfortunately I cannot give you a comparative review. You might want to...

ToolCrib.com broke a very interesting story the other day. As some of you may know, Irwin Tools bought Vise-Grip some time ago. It is always sad to see a little company get bought up by the big boys because you always know that things will never be the same again. As is the case with Vise-Grip, when Irwin decided to close up shop in DeWitt, Nebraska, and move the production to China. Fortunately for some of the 330 former employees of the DeWitt factory this story has a happy ending, and it could not have...

Just a question I have, and some thoughts on the subject. Do you repair your broken tools, or do you replace them? Probably for every one of us there is a point at which we find a tool takes too much effort to repair, and decide to replace it. Maybe it has nothing to do with effort at all, but price, or even a combination of the two. But with more and more tools being made in China, or Mexico, you can't help but notice that the quality of tools has been suffering. Maybe now more...

Did you know you can use Fein SuperCut ($720) attachments in a Dremel Multi-Max ($100). I didn't know either until just recently. Before I get into the how... you might be wondering why you would want to use Fein attachments in the Multi-Max. Well, Fein makes a lot of specialty attachments that are not yet available for the Dremel Multi-Max. For the regular sawing and sanding attachments you probably want to stick with the Dremel attachments... they are a heck of a lot cheaper, and if or when Dremel starts making their specialty attachments, they will probably be cheaper...

  Do you have problems keeping your hard earned cash from growing legs? Or Maybe you just need an emergency stash in case something goes wrong. The spy bolt can keep your money well hidden from would be thieves. Simply unscrew the top of the bolt to revel the hollowed out innards. Then you can simply place the bolt in your junk drawer, or even install it onto something. Just be sure to keep track of where it is at all times. You dont want $500 in cash getting away because you sold your jar of...

  This cool new flashlight from 5.11 Tactical uses futuristic technology to power its amazing light source. Instead of using the very common and boring battery, they use chose to go high tech, and use ultracapacitors. These ultracapacitors can be fully charged in about 90 seconds, giving you 90 minutes of run time. You might be thinking there is some kind of trade off because of the quick recharge, but you would be wrong. The flashlight has an amazing max output of 270 lumen's for 15 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of standby. The most amazing part...

News from the Popular Woodworking Blog comes as a bit of a shock. When PC Vice-President Dan Gregory said DeWalt tools were their professional-line tools, I was astounded, as were others. He explained that PC is attempting to position these tools for tradesman – an area of the market that PC feels is full of value-conscientious, value-driven buyers. PC is being sandwiched between Black & Decker (at the low end) and DeWalt (the high end). I’ve always thought my Porter-Cable routers and PC sanders were better than the DeWalt counterparts. - New Tools from Porter Cable This...